Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
HERMANN HESSEThe bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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